Foxon Park (based in CT) orange soda or ginger ale.
I don’t drink much soda, but when we visit the in-laws, a trip to Frank Pepe’s for sausage pizza and orange Foxon Park is a must.
Polar orange dry (6-10% juice, kind of reminds me of orangina) and Cape Cod Cranberry
mmmmm
I got really confused when Coke started using a polar bear in their ad campaign, I was only a little kid, and in my mind the polar bear was connected with Polar drinks.
I love my good old pedestrian Faygo Rock and Rye. I find it funny they named a pop after a liquor drink. As it happens, Faygo is the favorite of ICP as well. Both are made in Michigan!
We used to have a thing here in MI called Towne Club, where you’d buy a case of pop at a time, in glass bottles packed into a wooden crate, and they had some great flavors; black cherry was my favorite. You returned both the case and the bottles, I believe, and this was before deposit laws, too!
Here’s a place online that you can order hard-to-find soda’s - Galco’s Soda Pop Stop. I actually don’t live very far and go there maybe 2-3 times a year. They have mostly bottled sodas. Fairly expensive. Real connoisseurs.
They have several sodas that I like a lot -
A grape flavored one called Delaware Punch, I can drink it down in one gulp. The bottles always seem like they’re coated with a thin layer of dirt, like they’ve been buried for awhile (just like a treasure). They’re out of stock and have been for awhile. 
They have Original formula Dr. Pepper with real cane sugar. A treat if you never had it before.
Jolt cola. In glass bottles! Three different flavors! How often do you see that? I’m not a fan of this one but it’s always brings a smile to my face when I see it.
They have several colas that I didn’t even know came in bottles like Mountain Dew and RC Cola.
My favorite of them all, probably my favorite cola of all time most be Kickapoo Joy Juice. And I’m not just saying that to be funny. It’s fantastic stuff. That it isn’t readily available proves there is no god. Or that he has a really bad sense of humor.
And yes, they carry Moxie. In 4 flavors!
Budwine was great, but I don’t think it’s made anymore. I love Nehi sodas, especially the Peach, and of course, RC Cola.
How did this thread get over 40 posts without anyone mentioning Vernor’s (golden Ginger Ale)?
(I know. It has been licensed out to the point of being more a regional than a local beverage, but I can remember when it truly was a Dertoit confection, so I still think of it as local even though I buy it down here in Cleveland.)
Well Tahiti Treat is closer then when I thought it was Hawaiian Punch…
Okay, where can I buy some Tahitian Treat?
I think it’s available in Ohio and Michigan - not sure how widespread. (I’m pretty sure we used it in punch at work a few months ago.)
Oh…and I had forgotten Vernor’s. I grew up in Michigan, but moved to Ohio 22 years ago or so when it wasn’t available down here. Definitely one of my childhood favorites. And Grapette (which was listed in bclouse’s Delaware Punch link)…we used to drink it at my aunt’s house…loved it too. This thread is making me all nostalgic.
GT
I don’t know if this counts, but Chelmsford (Ginger Ale). I’ve only seen it as a store brand of Market Basket (small grocery store chain), which seems odd. I wonder if they sell the same flavor with a different label in other grocery stores. MrValley thinks it tastes like medicine, though.
Any Massachusetts area folks know about this stuff?
Jolly Good puts the pop in Wisconsin.
There is a local NACB* “micro-brewery” near me, but I don’t like their stuff that much.
Brian
NACB - pronounced “NACK-Bee” Non Alcaholic Carbonated Bevarage. Term I invented to settle the pop vs soda wars on the UW-Platteville bulletin board system.
All the local stuff here is awful, IMO.
When I was on holiday in the USA we came across Dr. Enuf in Eastern Tennessee. With a name like that we just had to try and we thought it was brilliant. The herbal was good too and, though this may very well have been placebo effect or just sugar, the advertisement energising properties did actually seem to work for us. Wish it was sold here.
Well darnit, that’s a little out of my way being in Canada and all. plots
I just tried Fayo and Cheerwine. The Faygo is a bit syrupy for my tastes, but I really enjoyed the Cheerwine. What else do these guys make? Carolina Dopers? A little help?
MMMMM…watermelon soda from Disneyworld! I had it about 7 years ago and I’m still jonesing for it.
I love Big Red, Diet Big Red and Big Peach, but unfortunately the last two are impossible to find locally.
And Jones Diet Black Cherry soda is yummy.
Cherikee Red is a very good soda local to the Pittsburgh area. I just Googled the name and found a lot of references to a lawsuit brought against the company that distributes it, filed by American Indian organizations.
If I recall correctly, it’s bottled in Kecksburg, home of the mysterious Kecksburg UFO.
Well, this is not too localised, but in England/Ireland and probably other places there’s this “health drink” called Aqua Libra which is vaguely mellony and quite nice if really overpriced. Not sure if that can be got elsewhere.
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Here’s a place online that you can order hard-to-find soda’s - Galco’s Soda Pop Stop. I actually don’t live very far and go there maybe 2-3 times a year. They have mostly bottled sodas. Fairly expensive. Real connoisseurs.
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For all of you Watermelon Soda fans, they have one listed at the Galco’s site. bclouse I curse you for providing such a site! I will now be forced to spend myself into debt until I have tried all of those enticing beverages.
I was waiting for someone to mention Faygo! Juggalo dopers unite! 
Sadly, since I’m in Canada I’ll probably never drink Faygo but it’s still my favorite “local” soda, even if it’s not in my locality.
I never really thought that Faygo and Big Red sodas were local. Some things are just taken for granted, I suppose. Then again, Faygo has all but disappeared in my part of the world.
My all time favorite is Big Red. There’s a bottling plant in San Antonio, and I’ve never seen it anywhere else. I just assumed it was a Texas thing. It’s yummy!